Kanwaljit Singh is a Senior Program Officer for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He leads the 'Financial Services for the Poor' team’s emerging technologies work, which aims to accelerate development and adoption of technologies and platforms to bring digital financial services to the billions of unbanked and underbanked people globally.
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May 15, 2022Confronted with that big gulf, I felt that I needed to do more, to do something different. And that’s when I started looking into jobs at the Foundation. When a position opened up for a technologist, I felt that despite having no background in finance, or development, I did feel comfortable around technology. I thought I could make a dent and, so, I applied. And here we are ... (cont)